SCOTTISH universities have received 5,000 fewer applications from students south of the Border wanting to take their degrees in Scotland amid claims that the recession and uncertainty over fees are causing undergraduates to stay closer to home.  That’s the Scotsman’s theory on why Scottish universities are seeing a drop in the number of English students [...]

Nick Clegg has told the Daily Telegraph that it is right English students should have to pay up to £9k per year to go to university while Scottish students should study for free. He said that under devolution it is right that there should be differences in the two nations and he’s absolutely right – [...]

According to the BBC, GPs in England are being put under pressure by PCTs to half the amount of medication they are prescribing patients to bring in more income from prescription charges. Currently you can get up to 2 months’ worth of medication on one prescription but PCTs have been telling GPs to cut that to [...]

On the 1st of April, the British Department of English Health is putting prescriptions charges up to £7.40 per item. On the 1st of April, the Scottish government is abolishing prescription charges. The Welsh and Northern Irish already get free prescriptions so from April Fool’s Day, the English will be the only people in the [...]

Our poor precious MPs aren’t very happy that the number of seats reserved for them and their guests in the Strangers Cafe in the House of Commons has been reduced so that the peasants don’t have to wait so long while the MP’s reserved seating area sits half empty. Fifteen MPs have signed a motion complaining [...]

Ann Widdecombe has publicly spoken out against David Camoron‘s “A” list selection procedure for Tory PPC’s. The “A” list system discriminates against white male candidates in favour of ethnic and female candidates in a deliberate attempt to artifically “balance” the sexual and ethnic make-up of the British government by placing ethnic and female candidates in [...]

Straight from the horses mouth, Harriet Harman wants companies to practice discrimination when considering similar applications for jobs: They might think we don’t want an all male team. We’ve got a new post coming up, we’ve got equally qualified men and women going for it, we are going to pick the woman because we want [...]

On April 1st a new scheme came into force to allow pensioners to have fee off-peak travel around England. Previously they were entitled to only off-peak travel within their local authority. Pensioners in Scotland and Wales have been entitled to free public transport at any time throughout their own country for several years and in [...]

The following letter has been sent to the press in the West Midlands and Shropshire MPs: Tom Taylor, Chief Executive of the Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust, has confirmed what the Shropshire branch of the Campaign for an English Parliament has been saying for the last couple of years – that treating Welsh patients in [...]

A lot of people I talk to were of the opinion that Camoron would ditch the proposed English Votes on English Matters/English Grand Committee idea once they got into power.  How wrong they were. David Cameron is poised to draw back from proposing to slap an all-out ban on Scottish MPs debating and voting on [...]

On Monday I pointed out two examples of NHS discrimination in England. The third example of NHS discrimination this week was announced today – the price of a prescription in England will rise to £7.10 per item. Meanwhile, in Scotland prescription charges are capped at £5 with 93% being dispensed free of charge.  In Wales, [...]